the other picture is just showing that it is in the folder

yep its there and none of the other research i added is giving me problems what sort of errors should i be looking for i didn't change anything to it

Considering he posted a screenshot of the entity.manifest I'd guess so. In the player<race>.entity you don't have the .entity at the end of each line and it starts with entityDefName, not entityName.

Is it possible you forgot to, or messed up when increasing the counter at the beginning of the research list?

it is mini dumping right after i get that error so i think that is it

Please PasteBin the contents of the entity manifest, humor us.

Also, does any research require that as a pre'requisite, or any ships need it?  Any mispellings will cause hell also.

www.pastebin.com

you can paste stuff, then link it for others to read.  Sad the forums don't support attach txt.

Paste the research file too.

You might as well just upload the whole folder.

That would be your problem...

The manifest file has "file.entity" as it's reference design, the player file only uses the file name, no extension.

well, you've posted another thread with minidump problems.  Start a single thread for your ALDAR mod and stick to posting in it often instead of in different ones all the time.